Charges Its Performance Engine with New ThinkStation Workstations

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lenovo today announced two new workstations – the ThinkStation S20 and
D20 - designed exclusively for specialized professionals in fields such
as computer-aided design, digital content creation and oil and gas.
Powered by ThinkStation
workstations, Lenovo is also debuting its new e-commerce platform,
the Lenovo
eLounge, to give customers a new, first-of-its-kind interactive way
to experience Lenovo computing solutions online anywhere in the world.

“Designers, engineers, developers and scientists require the highest
levels in computing performance to help them produce breakthrough
innovations,” said, Tom Tobul, executive director, Enterprise, Software
and Peripherals, Lenovo. “The new ThinkStation workstations deliver not
only the utmost in performance, but also a user-centric design with an
emphasis on quiet operation, even during heavy processing."

Turbo-charged for performance, Lenovo’s latest workstations can even be
configured for personal supercomputing, helping enable professionals to
innovate faster and reduce the time between an idea and a product.
Adding the NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU platform to the workstations offers
240 additional cores of dedicated math processing power to help speed up
calculations dramatically. In addition to this super performance boost
and quieter computing experience over previous Lenovo workstations, the
new workstations also feature the latest, high performance technologies
including:

"There has been a revolution in our industry for building information
modeling, and we're finding that with large 3D model files it takes a
long time to get them open and started,” said Tom Toot, IT manager,
Anshen + Allen. “We've found that the Lenovo ThinkStation D10 performed
better than workstations from other vendors with equal specs. We look
forward to seeing the next generation of workstations from Lenovo."

Powering Green Computing Solutions

Not only are Lenovo’s next generation of workstations higher performing,
they are greener.
Lenovo is helping to lead the industry in using recycled
materials with both workstations using 50 percent recycled content.
In the ThinkStation D20 workstation, nearly 30 percent of the recycled
content comes from post consumer recycled content, which is equivalent
to the weight of approximately 19 plastic drinking water bottles. Lenovo
also tested the workstations to be GREENGUARD
certified, meaning they meet standards for more than 2,000 chemical
tests.

The workstations also meet the Energy
Star 5.0 criteria taking effect in July, and select workstation
models are rated Gold by the Electronic
Product Environmental Assessment Tool for their environmental
attributes.

Workstations Fuel Virtual e-Commerce Experience

The Lenovo eLounge creates a new e-commerce platform by merging the
customer service available at brick-and-mortar stores with the
convenience of online shopping. Built on the Unreal Engine from Epic
Games and powered by a ThinkStation
D Series workstation, Lenovo is giving customers a new, interactive
way to learn about and purchase Lenovo computing solutions.

Customers can enter the virtual world from anywhere with an Internet
connection anytime, create an avatar and browse the product showcase and
speak directly with Lenovo sales representatives. The eLounge also
extends the idea of collaborative shopping. For example, a father and
son who live in different cities decide to shop for a PC together. In
the Lenovo eLounge, they can shop for a PC and receive answers in
real-time from Lenovo representatives to help them pick the right
technology for them. Customers can visit the eLounge during normal
business hours in the U.S.

Advancing Game Developer Innovation

Lenovo is working with Epic
Games, maker of the “Unreal” series of games and “Gears of War”
franchise, to showcase the latest enhancements in Unreal Engine 3 on the
new ThinkStation S20 and D20 workstations at the Epic Games booth
(ES#144) at the Game
Developers Conference in San Francisco, March 25 – 27, 2009.

“The ThinkStation workstations are really well built, quiet and fast,”
said Mark Rein, vice president, Epic Games. “The service and support
from Lenovo has been outstanding as well. We really put our workstations
through the ringer when we're building games and engine technology, and
the ThinkStation workstations have proven to be valuable and reliable
tools.”

Lenovo will be providing several workstations to the Phase 3 winners of
the Epic
Games $1 Million Make Something Unreal Contest. In the contest,
aspiring game developers create modifications for the PC version of
Unreal Tournament 3 in several categories, including levels, characters,
weapons, game types, tools, vehicles and more.